A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent, with the road from Boston to Concord : shewing the place of the late engagement between the King's troops & the provincials, together with the several encampments of both armies in & about

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Description

Title: A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent, with the road from Boston to Concord : shewing the place of the late engagement between the King's troops & the provincials, together with the several encampments of both armies in & about
Creator: De Costa, J
Contributor: Hall, Charles, b. ca. 1720-1780, engraver
Published / Created: July 29th, 1775.
Publication Place: London :
Publisher: Publish'd ... by J. de Costa ...,
Description: "Earliest battle plan of the American War of Independence" (Tooley).
2nd state of 4 known states (Pritchard and Taliaferro).
Hand col. Sheet measures 49 x 6
Ills. of troops, battles, encampments.
Index.
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.
Extent: 1 map ; 36.5 x 48.2 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:103 600].
Coordinates: 103600 and a
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 764 B65 1775
Container / Volume: BRBL_00454

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: cartographic
Genre: Military maps
Resource Type: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic): Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Maps--Early works to 1800
Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name): Hall, Charles, b. ca. 1720-1780, engraver

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
Citation: Pritchard and Taliaferro. Degrees of latitude, no. 51
Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, revised edition, vol. A-D (1999), p. 347

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8380730
Object ID (OID): 15654575